Letterboxd — Your life in film

I've always heard this was one of the lesser Raimi films. I don't know why though, because this was so much fun.

An incomprehensible mess that has absolutely nothing even remotely interesting going on.

Also, that has to be the most desperate post-credits scene I've ever seen.

Had to rewatch this after witnessing Ke Huy Quan's glorious return to our screens.

Is it misogynist? Yeah. Is it racist? Oh, absolutely. But it is also a completely insane, bonkers masterpiece of an adventure movie that I love with all my heart.

A fun bit of adventuring nonsense.

Probably one of the most insane films made on this side of the 80's. Just absolute glorious madness.

Also, working in the costume department for this movie must've been a lot of fun.

None of this would've happened if they'd known about The Golden Rule.

Naked bodies, pretty dresses and not much else.

What I like about these kinds of microbudget genre films is that the good ones often find very interesting and ambitious ways to play with their limited resources and Resolution is a great example of this.

I also really enjoyed how most of the smaller roles only show up once, which creates a wonderfully weird vibe.

The plot is surprisingly straightforward for a movie involving multiversal shenanigans and I definitely am not on board with some of the narrative choices in this (mainly everything involving the villain and their motivations).

That said, it's fantastic to see a MCU film that actually feels like it was made by an actual director. In many ways (honestly, in everything except the plot), this feels like a Sam Raimi film first and a MCU movie second and it's so much better for it.

Before seeing Sam Raimi's, hopefully, glorious return to cinemas, I decided to rewatch this absolute horror classic. I'm still not a fan of the tree rape scene, but the rest is gory, gnarly brilliance.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

As soon as they know where the Omega actually is, the movie kinda deflates and it definitely would've been better without the final scene. However, everything before that is tons of fun.